An Unexpected Legacy, Amy Anguish, #Giveaway

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Where author guests have a chance to breathe new life into books from their backlist.

So please welcome author Amy Anguish!

There's a #giveaway, too. 

From Idea to Legacy

by Amy Anguish

In 2011, I sat down with a simple question running through my head. What if a guy and girl started dating, but then found out their parents had dated back in high school? How would that affect their relationship? I had no idea what had broken up their parents. I had no idea what the outcome would be (other than some sort of happily ever after – this is romance, after all). But I wanted to write it.

The opening scene was already in my head. A beautiful autumn afternoon in the Austin area of Texas. I could picture several other scenes, too. So, I took advantage of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November and hammered out over 50,000 words.

Halfway through the month, I realized I needed to also be telling her mom’s story as well as my main character’s. So, I interspersed scenes from the past throughout the current timeline. I didn’t realize I was writing a time-slip novel. I didn’t even know that term at the time. I’d never been published before and was still very much an amateur in my career.

Still, I ended up loving that novel, despite the fact that by the end, I was yelling at my characters to “quit angsting and just kiss already!”

I submitted it to a publisher who rejected it. But the lady who was their acquisitions editor at the time saw the potential in it. Several years later, she contacted me and took me under her wing to polish it up and publish it through her brand-new company.

We went through the frustration of her encouraging me to change the title—I had originally called it For the Love of Smoothies, but she pointed out that it had a bit of suspense in with the romance, too, and needed something edgier. We went through the agony of trying to find the perfect cover. And I love the final product.

It’s not what I thought I would get when I sat down to write November 1, 2011, but in 2017, An Unexpected Legacy was born. Since then, I’ve continued to learn and published a second book this last April and signed a contract to have a third come out next September. It’s been an amazing journey, but Legacy will always be my “first book baby.”

Several people have asked for a sequel. Well, I have never written a sequel, so it may not happen any time soon, but I did write a short Christmas story set a month after the book and posted it on my blog this week. Feel free to go check it out here

https://abitofanguish.weebly.com/writing/category/short-story but watch out for spoilers.

I’d love to know. If you found out your mom had dated your boyfriend’s dad in the past, what would you think? Would it freak you out a little? Would you wonder why they broke up?

About the Book:

When Chad Manning introduces himself to Jessica Garcia at her favorite smoothie shop, it's like he stepped out of one of her romance novels. But as she tentatively walks into a relationship with this man of her dreams, secrets from their past threaten to shatter their already fragile bond.  Chad and Jessica must struggle to figure out if their relationship has a chance or if there is nothing between them but a love of smoothies.

Purchase link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0996274626

About Amy:

Amy R Anguish grew up a preacher's kid, and in spite of having lived in seven different states that are all south of the Mason Dixon line, she is not a football fan. Currently, she resides in Tennessee with her husband, daughter, and son, and usually a bossy cat or two. Amy has an English degree from Freed-Hardeman University that she intends to use to glorify God, and she wants her stories to show that while Christians face real struggles, it can still work out for good.

Follow her at http://abitofanguish.weebly.com or http://www.facebook.com/amyanguishauthor

About the Giveaway:

Amy is offering to give away an eBook copy of An Unexpected Legacy to one of my blog readers. Entering is easy . . . just leave your name and contact information (in case you win) in the comment section below. If you feel like answering Amy’s question above along with your comment, that would be great, but not required to be entered in the drawing. Giveaway ends one week from today on December 26 at MIDNIGHT O’clock.